ODNI gives the stiff-arm, GAO delivers an arm-bar (from the POGO).

Government investigators Monday panned the administration’s efforts to share vital counter-terrorism information among the large number of federal agencies involved in protecting the U.S. homeland, an endeavor senior intelligence officials say is a litmus test of the success of the nation’s new intelligence czar. “More than 4 years after Sept. 11,” wrote investigators for the…

. . . why certain agencies flat-out refuse to connect to warfighter networks: John Schoonover, who worked for the Department of Defense on one of the largest network deployments in history during Operation Enduring Freedom was “witness to a huge lack of IQ points” in a senior manager. According to Schoonover, military INFOSEC installations generally…

I think I have mentioned this before, but my political acumen is not terribly sophisticated. The last guy I got really excited about putting in the White House died of cancer, so if we’re ever at the track together don’t bet on my horse. Take my poor judgment in this area when you consider my…

On April 3, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld issued a directive to establish a Joint Intelligence Operations Center at DoD’s Defense Intelligence Agency, at each unified combatant command and at U.S. Forces Korea, Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and warfighting support, told reporters at a news briefing. “What…

. . . is still progress A year into a broad overhaul of U.S. intelligence operations, top officials said Thursday they have gained greater confidence in their intelligence assessments, in part by incorporating dissenting views into their analysis.

The head of a private research company has challenged the director of national intelligence to an information duel. Robert David Steele Vivas, the chief executive officer of Open Source Solutions, is a longtime proponent of improving the U.S. government’s ability to retrieve and analyze the vast amounts of information available publicly from web sites, magazines,…

I’m reading about and occasionally watching snippets of the illegal immigration protests going on around the country. Looking at the crowds I am reminded of the deer hunting drives of my youth and wonder why there isn’t a line of CBP agents at one end of the street with bags of flex-cuffs, while another line…

A key component of China’s information warfare expertise comes from a group called the “Red Hackers Alliance,” which identifies itself as “a network security research organization made up of Chinese patriotic hackers,” U.S. officials say. Chinese-origin hackers are responsible for tens of thousands of computer attacks on U.S. government networks, U.S. officials say. A Hong…

How this made it into print is beyond me (it isn’t but I like to pretend to be indignant). Lots of movement but it is more flailing than dancing. Perhaps the master of the online quilting archive feels left out? Something that the doctor is not aware of or has ignored: unless an item is…